Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Band 15James E. Person Gale, 1991 - 480 Seiten Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 of the greatest writers and thinkers of the late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Restoration periods by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among those profiled in this volume are:
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... wishes really to push matters to an extremity . The deists attack priestcraft with fierce hostility ; but they do not wish to destroy theology . The priest once deprived of his exaggerated pretensions may be allowed to remain as a ...
... wishes really to push matters to an extremity . The deists attack priestcraft with fierce hostility ; but they do not wish to destroy theology . The priest once deprived of his exaggerated pretensions may be allowed to remain as a ...
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... Wishes " has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his " London . " More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of " London , " than with the profound reflection of " The Vanity of Human ...
... Wishes " has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his " London . " More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of " London , " than with the profound reflection of " The Vanity of Human ...
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... wish for long life , is but one of many prodigies in the grotesque gal- lery of the old . And Beauty , heedless , flimsy , and superfi- cial , retires to " hissing infamy " ( 1. 342 ) . " The Vanity of Human Wishes , " Johnson's theater ...
... wish for long life , is but one of many prodigies in the grotesque gal- lery of the old . And Beauty , heedless , flimsy , and superfi- cial , retires to " hissing infamy " ( 1. 342 ) . " The Vanity of Human Wishes , " Johnson's theater ...
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Age of Johnson | 1 |
David Garrick 17171779 | 88 |
Baltasar Gracián y Morales 16011658 | 133 |
Urheberrecht | |
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